Tourist’s lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

Tourist’s lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

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Stephen Mills (centre) with the safe he had just opened

A Canadian man unlocked a safe that had sat unopened in a small museum for decades, cracking the code on his first try with a lucky guess. Mr Mills said when they were shown the safe, the whole family “was intrigued”. The odds of Mr Mills correctly guessing the combination are pretty long, says the University of Toronto’s Jeffrey Rosenthal, author of Knock on Wood: Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

What’s the deal with square traces on PCBs?

What’s the deal with square traces on PCBs?

For all the tips and tricks presented to first-time board designers, the ‘acid trap’ explanation is the implicit reason for why you should not use 90-degree traces. ‘Ease of manufacturing’ is the reason for not using 90-degree traces on many articles for the tips and tricks of PCB design. There is no specific reason why every circuit board design should shy away from 90-degree angles on traces, it’s just something that you shouldn’t do because it looks wrong.

Source: hackaday.com

Fruit Machine (Homosexuality Test)

Fruit Machine (Homosexuality Test)

The subjects were made to view pornography; the device then measured the diameter of the pupils of the eyes (pupillary response test), perspiration, and pulse for a supposed erotic response. Although funding for the “fruit machine” project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on over 9,000 “suspected” gay people. It had previously been determined that the pupils would dilate in relation to the amount of interest in the picture per the technique termed ‘the pupillary response test’.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Show HN: Open Source Food Delivery and Local Platform

Show HN: Open Source Food Delivery and Local Platform

All the source code of Nearby Shops Open-Source project is released under a liberal MIT license which allows you to use this software for commercial use. Mobile Based – Multi-Vendor Platform where customers can send orders to multiple shops / Restaurants

Integrations for Sending SMS-OTP, E-mail and Push Notifications are available

Order Tracking with Live status updates for Customer using e-mail, SMS and Push Notifications

Rating and Reviews for Items and Shops

Home Delivery and Pick From Shop (Online-to-Offline) Shopping Concept is Supported

Location Based Filtering is available which means that customers will see only those shops which can deliver to their address and other shops will get filtered out. All the source code of Nearby Shops Open-Source project is released under a liberal MIT license which allows you to use this software for commercial use.

Source: github.com

Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency. So Do Its Partners

Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency. So Do Its Partners

A number of partners said they would decide whether to join the association and make the payment after there is more clarity on how Libra will work, the executives from the seven companies said. A spokesman for the Libra Association, Dante Disparte, said that since the announcement last week, the association has heard from a flood of companies interested in being members. Facebook approached a number of big financial companies, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity, about participating in the project, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Show HN: Open-Source food delivery and Hyperlocal app – Under MIT License

Show HN: Open-Source food delivery and Hyperlocal app – Under MIT License

All the source code of Nearby Shops Open-Source project is released under a liberal MIT license which allows you to use this software for commertial use. Mobile Based – Multi-Vendor Platform where customers can send orders to multiple shops / Restaurants

Integrations for Sending SMS-OTP, E-mail and Push Notifications are available

Order Tracking with Live status updates for Customer using e-mail, SMS and Push Notifications

Rating and Reviews for Items and Shops

Home Delivery and Pick From Shop (Online-to-Offline) Shopping Concept is Supported

Location Based Filtering is available which means that customers will see only those shops which can deliver to their address and other shops will get filtered out. All the source code of Nearby Shops Open-Source project is released under a liberal MIT license which allows you to use this software for commertial use.

Source: github.com

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

The more I pored over yearly surveys of teen attitudes and behaviors, and the more I talked with young people like Athena, the clearer it became that theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. But the allure of independence, so powerful to previous generations, holds less sway over today’s teens, who are less likely to leave the house without their parents. Nearly all Boomer high-school students had their driver’s license by the spring of their senior year; more than one in four teens today still lack one at the end of high school.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government may have plans to follow France’s footsteps in building a chat app and requiring government employees to use it for official communications. The move to step away from foreign communication apps, if it comes to fruition, won’t be the first time a nation has attempted to cautiously restrict usage of popular messaging apps run by foreign players in government offices. China, which has restricted many foreign companies from operating in the nation, also maintains customized versions of popular operating systems for use in government offices.

Source: techcrunch.com

Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

Today, at the Big Apple Video conference in New York, Cisco unveiled its real-time, high quality AV1 encoder optimized for video collaboration, that reduces bandwidth, enables next-generation content and avoids the patent issues that have plagued the deployment of HEVC aka H.265. During AV1 development, and as well as contributing coding technologies, Cisco worked hard with our AOM partners to make sure that AV1 supports the features needed for future collaboration applications, especially for low delay, real-time, and error resilience. AV1 is not merely an HEVC replacement, but also addresses a growing problem in collaboration: the demand for higher quality and new services is growing as never before, and greater and greater loads will be placed upon networks.

Source: blogs.cisco.com